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[Aklyon]

I will say this: the network coding and graphics are nothing short of amazing. 7 billion+ players online at any given time, with barely a trace of lag. Considering that everything in the environment is an accurately-rendered, interact-able physics object and it's all in a single realm, it's pretty damn incredible.

They even managed to have a full 8 other major physics systems in the space region running, no matter what was (or wasn't) near them!

[MaximumZero]

Sadly, the devs still seem to be dead-set on their "no explicitly supernatural content" rule. You'd think they'd at least give us aliens, but so far nothing.

Are you sure thats just a eternal bug in the system they can't be arsed to fix because it would interfere with their war arcs?

To be honest, I'm not sure. The dev team is remarkably tight-lipped about just about everything.

You know, no one ever clearly defined whether or not it was a dev team, or a single lunatic of a developer.

Good point.

You know, you could also argue that there actually is no dev team, and that there is no actual "game". Some people contest that what we're seeing is just the stuff that was in the RAM when the Universe booted up.

[Sirus]

I will say this: the network coding and graphics are nothing short of amazing. 7 billion+ players online at any given time, with barely a trace of lag. Considering that everything in the environment is an accurately-rendered, interact-able physics object and it's all in a single realm, it's pretty damn incredible.

They even managed to have a full 8 other major physics systems in the space region running, no matter what was (or wasn't) near them!

Heck, that's the least of their accomplishments. They also have a few hundred million similar regions moving through space, all interacting with each other, orbiting a center of gravity, and collectively making up an even larger physics object that is interacting with billions of other similar objects! Sorry KSP, Source engine, and other physics games, you can't beat that.

[SalmonGod]

Although it's hard to tell if some physics behaviors are bugs or features.  Stuff like this makes me think of the bizarre fits you can cause when intentionally breaking the physics in games like Gary's Mod.

[Aklyon]

Sadly, the devs still seem to be dead-set on their "no explicitly supernatural content" rule. You'd think they'd at least give us aliens, but so far nothing.

Are you sure thats just a eternal bug in the system they can't be arsed to fix because it would interfere with their war arcs?

To be honest, I'm not sure. The dev team is remarkably tight-lipped about just about everything.

You know, no one ever clearly defined whether or not it was a dev team, or a single lunatic of a developer.

Good point.

You know, you could also argue that there actually is no dev team, and that there is no actual "game". Some people contest that what we're seeing is just the stuff that was in the RAM when the Universe booted up.

Are you saying the Universe has been running off a UPS for billions of years with no downtime for charging?

[MaximumZero]

Who knows? Who knows if the game machine is plugged in? Who knows how fast the machine that's running the game can run simulations. What if it could do a few billion years of sim in a few seconds of uptime, and the whole game is just part of that sim? What if the game is actually just part of the boot process and will end suddenly when the boot is complete? What if the game is running on a laptop and the battery suddenly dies?

[SalmonGod]

What if the machine running the "real life" sim is just a part of a sim being run by another machine that's part of a sim being run by another machine and so on up through infinity?!?!?!?!

[MaximumZero]

What if the machine running the "real life" sim is just a part of a sim being run by another machine that's part of a sim being run by another machine and so on up through infinity?!?!?!?!

Simception!

[Bauglir]

If that's the case, then we'll figure out hax

[SalmonGod]

If that's the case, then we'll figure out hax

Really liked that, thanks.  Good daydreaming material.

[Scaraban]

If that's the case, then we'll figure out hax

I didn't make it too far. That shit is too deep for me when I'm this tired.

[Powder Miner]

Oh god there's a sphere in my room. It's just black and it's hovering there. Oh god what do I do?

[Putnam]

O_o

[Sirus]

Oh god there's a sphere in my room. It's just black and it's hovering there. Oh god what do I do?

Call the SCP Foundation. I'm sure they'll be interested.

[NobodyPro]

What causes gravity? Gravitons or gravity faeries?